"@JoAnne65;c-17402757" wrote:
"Alexciel;c-17402400" wrote:
"JoAnne65;c-17401167" wrote:
I saw footage of a hot tub interaction in Sims 1 yesterday, on Twitter. The current generation of simmers reacted totally shocked, that’s all I’m going to say :D It’s absolutely unthinkable they’d do something like that nowadays. Unthinkable. Sometimes I wonder if we moved back to the fifties without realizing it.
Well, it is said that history moves in a pendulum-like way. There are times of liberalization and times of strenghtening of social norms. And we DO are in a strenghtening one, because all the new changes (like our definition of marriage and what is proper in general) follows the current social norms, and even more, you can change them without a strong moral justification.
For exampe, In games the introduction of gender diversity is not being done due to liberalization, is being done to adjust games to the current social code. Its adjusting games to what is "right" and lawful. So we didn't go back to the 1950's we moved forward to the 2010's. I mean, we went from a hardening of norms period (the 50's) to a liberalization period and then to back to another hardening period. We move pendulum like.
True, it’s not literally the fifties in many respects, thankfully. But as someone who grew up in a different era, I regret this new prudishness. I miss the lightness and honesty surrounding basically healthy and human behaviour. When I see a 25 year old getting totally shocked looking at that hot tub scene, that feels kind of alienating to me. I mean, hello? What’s the big deal there? You can laugh, that’s ok, it’s funny, not shocking. Nobody gets hurt there (on the contrary :D ).
I remember in TS1 that if an outgoing Sim was the first to go into a hot tub then they would go in naked and all other Sims getting in would also be naked. It was one of those things that you just had to try! :D
